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Tag: Extract video from Power Point

Sometimes we embed media and objects in PowerPoint files. These files and objects could be images, videos, sounds, documents, etc. One of my colleagues had an old PowerPoint 2010 file, with a video file embedded in it. In order to reduce the final file size (when there is media embedded in a PowerPoint file, the file size increases dramatically, based on the media’s size. This include embedded images as well), he asked me to take the video clip out of the PowerPoint file and upload it to YouTube.

Honestly I had no clue how to do that. I was trying to right click on the video preview, but there were no “save as” or “export” options. Interesting.

So I researched the web, and found a beautiful trick to solve it.

Extract pictures and video clips from a PowerPoint file

By default, Windows Explorer is set to hide file extensions. In order to extract media, we first need to make sure Windows Explorer is set to show file extensions.

This is how to set Windows Explorer to show file extensions (Windows 7):